56 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES in placing key employees in the financial sector, initially for major corporations such as Pepsi and Black & Decker, but for the last decade-plus with middle-sized and small private companies. He was filling chief financial officer, vice president for finance and other high-level financial management positions. But Rich is not completely walking away. He is keeping his business email and intends to do pro bono work in that sector. Meanwhile, Rich and wife Lyn moved from New Canaan, Conn., to Bethlehem in 2021 to be closer to their youngest son, Peter ’07, his wife Tamara Nisic ’08 ’09G, and their two daughters. The move is working out well. Rich enjoys having easy access to Lehigh, especially for football games and wrestling matches. Peter is a wellness coach for Geisinger Health. Rich’s and Lyn’s oldest son, Andrew ’03, is an anesthesiologist and head of the anesthesiology department at a Kaiser Permanente hospital on the West Coast. Middle son Matthew is a University of Connecticut graduate who does social media and content work for a large New York City law firm. Last year Rich had surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon and a difficult initial recovery period, so he and Lyn had to postpone a planned river cruise in the South of France. He’s better now, and they will probably make the trip in 2025. ’70 Editor’s note: To share your news or if you would be interested in becoming your class’s correspondent, reaching out to classmates and writing a column three times a year, please contact the Alumni Office at 610-758-3686 or alumni@lehigh.edu. A note from Charlie Lieb and Reginald Jennings: “We are excited to let you know that our 55th Reunion is June 12-15, 2025. We hope you are able to join us on South Mountain to celebrate and connect with old and new friends.” Gary Leinberger sent in the following message (edited for length): “I have finally retired after 45 years of teaching finance at the college level, with the past 36 years at Millersville University, outside Lancaster, Pa. I retired as a full professor with emeritus status (maybe it was a bribe to get rid of me) in June 2023. I spent the first year trying to get all the bureaucrats in all the different pieces of retiring to play nicely together. Even with teaching personal finance regularly for 45 years, it was difficult. All is well now. “Susan and I continue to travel, including trips to France and Britain last year, and an Alaska cruise this summer on our way to visit our granddaughter. “During a cruise stop in Ketchikan, I met up with Bob Fernbach, a frat brother and off-campus roommate from Tau Delta Phi. Both of us had spent time in Alaska (different summers) fishing for salmon. He has been living there for the last 50 years or so, working with special needs children and in school administration. He has been retired for the past 25 years and done some great traveling. It was great to see him. “Upcoming trips include a trip to Japan in October and Spain in the spring of 2025. “I continue to fly a club plane (a 1968 Mooney) as well as my homebuilt Europa motor-glider (I learned to fly in a German glider club while a Tank platoon leader in Schweinfurt, Germany). I am the director of maintenance for the Mooney. I was maintenance officer but demanded a higher title. They did so and also doubled my salary—which is still zero. “I also do all the maintenance on my Europa. The Europa is IFR equipped (can fly in clouds) and has both cruise wings (26-foot wingspan) and glider wings (46-foot wingspan). It cruises at about 150 mph. I have flown the Europa about 500 hours, after taking 10 years to build it. “I have been flying now for 53 years and am receiving the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award next month. “I have come up to Lehigh for a few wrestling matches in the past several years. I am so proud to be part of the ‘brotherhood of Lehigh wrestlers.’ (Mike Caruso’s ’67 words.) “Both children are doing well. Amanda is in Brooklyn working as an archivist and database/website designer at the U.N. Luke is in Washington State living on a small farm near Mt. Rainer working at home recruiting people for high-level government security jobs. He is also an intelligence officer in the reserves as a major moving close to lieutenant colonel. Most importantly, he and his wife have a 3-year-old, Izzy, who generally leaves me exhausted even when Susan and I tag team her. “Susan continues to serve as [our] chief travel agent, as well as organizing bus trips for the ‘Downtowners,’ a group of older people working together to help seniors to continue living in their homes through mutual help. All in all, a great life.” ’71 Tom Wible, tomwible+lehigh71@ cardinalglen.org, seventyone4fun4ever.letartliveon.com/ When my fraternity brother Sam Dugan called me for a favor, of course I said yes! I want to thank Sam for his many years of diligent correspondence and will try to fill his shoes … with your help. I’ve created a blog for our class to share on: seventyone4fun4ever.letartliveon.com/ or email me at tomwible+lehigh71@ cardinalglen.org. And now, here’s my inaugural column: Six members of the Class of ’71 attended our Bucknell Tailgate on Sept. 28: Deb and Tom Martin, Jim Dale, Pam and John Althouse, Nancy and Barker Hamill, John Texter and yours truly. Unfortunately, Lehigh lost in double overtime, but we raised our spirits with John and Pam’s great wines from their Azure Hill Winery (see the blog for photos). Tom brought cheese and fig jam, and Nancy’s outstanding dessert provided much-needed chocolate therapy. Fellow Psi U Skip Paul (captskippaul@gmail.com) writes: “I drove my future wife to Baton Rouge in 1976 to take a position as assistant prof. of French at LSU. She later moved to Southeastern Louisiana U. as dept. chair. She retired in 2011 as a specialist in Creole French, some Cajun and Italian. “I moved to Baton Rouge in Jan ’77 to take a position as assistant asphalt research engineer, then asphalt research engineer, materials engineer, R&D engineer and finally for the last 10 years as the director of the Louisiana Transportation Research Center. If you stick around long enough, you get to run the place. I retired in 2016 after 39 years. “I also spent 42 years in the Navy Reserve, 12 as a navigator and 30 years as an intelligence officer, retiring in 2009 as a captain. I was the commanding officer of the NCIS office in both New Orleans and the HQ at the Navy Shipyard in Washington, D.C. “I currently still participate on several transportation research boards, NASEM committees and two national research panels. This is all voluntary, as is my chairmanship of the technical advisory committee of the local Metropolitan Planning Organization of the five-parish BR area, which plans and distributes all federal dollars coming into the area. “My son lives here in Baton Rouge, so we get to see his three children, 19, 5 and 2.5, weekly. “My daughter and her husband work for the U.S. Department of State and are currently serving in Tel Aviv with their three children, 8, 6 and 3. That’s a little scary, but
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